Hermes Guide of SoulsKarl Kerényi presents here a beautiful, authoritative study of the great god Hermes whom the Greeks revered as Guides of Souls. Chapters on Hermes and Night, Hermes and Eros, and Hermes and the goddesses illuminate the complex role of Hermes in classical mythology, while also providing an archetypal background for the guiding of souls in psychotherapy. A vital contribution both to the study of the classics and the therapy of the soul. |
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... Hermes from the Homeric poems . It would certainly be a rash conclusion to maintain that those features of the Hermes ... world of the Iliad is much less the world of Hermes than is that of the journey epic , the Odyssey , and his world ...
... Hermes from the Homeric poems . It would certainly be a rash conclusion to maintain that those features of the Hermes ... world of the Iliad is much less the world of Hermes than is that of the journey epic , the Odyssey , and his world ...
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Karl Kerényi. leap of imagination that creates the world of Hermes , that re- arranges the natural world into the special cosmos of Hermes , that gives the world the face of Hermes ? The answer to this admits of no doubt . The revelation ...
Karl Kerényi. leap of imagination that creates the world of Hermes , that re- arranges the natural world into the special cosmos of Hermes , that gives the world the face of Hermes ? The answer to this admits of no doubt . The revelation ...
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... world and they are one world , namely , that world which Hermes opens to us . The reality of the Hermes world proves at least the pres- ence of a standpoint from which it is revealed ; more than that , it testifies to something active ...
... world and they are one world , namely , that world which Hermes opens to us . The reality of the Hermes world proves at least the pres- ence of a standpoint from which it is revealed ; more than that , it testifies to something active ...
Contents
Preface to the 1995 Edition | 7 |
A Prefatory Note | 23 |
The Hermes Idea | 29 |
Copyright | |
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